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E. ABADIE.

MANUFACTURE OF RETIGULATED PAPER FOR OIGA'RBTTES. No. 314,639. Patented Mar. 31, 1885.

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MANUFACTURE OF RETICULATED PAPER FOR CIGARETTES.

PE $IFICAT1N forming part of I etters Patent No. 314,639, dated March 31, 1885.

Appication filed January 8, 1885. (No model Patented. in France March 20, 1894, No. 161,073.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1', Eeennr ABADIE. manufacturer, of Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented improvements in the make of endless reticulated paper and its new application to mechanical cigarettemaking, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent of France for fifteen years, dated March 20th, 1884, No. 161,073,) and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being made to the accompanying drawings.

Up to this day endless reticulated paperhas not been used in cigarette-machines for which endless paper is employed, on account of the difficulties presented by thiskind of paper for sizing. It will be easily understood, indeed, that the various grooves or gofferings by which the filigrain is formed are a serious objection to the two edges of the reticulated sheet being applied one upon the other. As the said grooves will very seldom coincide from one edge to the other, the sizing device, of any eonstructiomwill apply in an irregular way the glue on the superposed edge, so that the sizing of the edges of the tube just formed only takes place from spot to spot, and is effectuated in a very bad condition; or the partial sizing will yield afterward to the dilatation of the inserted tobacco slab or roll; or, if it overcomes that increase of volume, it will offer several not-sized points, by which the cigarette will be prevented totally from being smoked.

By the process to which my application for Letters Patent relates endless reticulated paper will easily be applied to mechanical cigar ette-making, and affords upon the whole a new product due to the said new application, and for which I claim the severalty.

In the accompanying drawings I show, in Figure 1,as a specimen, the whole of the arrangement adopted for reticulating of one width of endless cigarette-paper, which disposition,or asimilar one, may be interpolated between the paperstore and the cigarettemachine, in order to obtain the filigrain simultaneously with the working of the cigarv ette machine or machines, as described hereinafter.

The paper, being stored on the roller 66, runs between the workingrollers b and 0, between which the reticulating takes place, and,finally, guided by the gearing-roll cl,it reaches the receiver f, owing to the tractive power exerted by the said receiver. wood or ofany suitablematerial, is lined with a flexible substance-felt or india-rubber b.

' The roller 0, which is the essential means, is made of metal and lined externally with one sole clutch, also of metal, 0, or with several small clutches put together. The clutch 0 carries the series of grooves a which are equidistant with the plain divisionsyy,which all are equal, so that the widths of grooves are also equal, one to the other. Each series of grooves 00, increased by the two plain half parts 0ft, by which it is confined, has a total width exactly equal to the width required for the strap of endless paper intended for the cigarette-machine.

Fig.2, which shows in plan the disposition of the rollers 11 and 0, and Fig. 3, where the natural size of execution for the grooves of the roller 0 is to be seen, both show very clearly the disposition of the groovesa; and of the plain dividing parts 3 Thus it follows that the paper running between the rollers 12 and 0 receives the impression of the grooves in the said roller 0 with plain slips between each strip of grooves. In that condition the reticulated paper is stored on the receiver f. Then it is cutby the usual means in the middle of the plain slips,in order to givebobbins formed by reticulated ribbons, a part of which is shown in Fig. 4. In the said figure a is the series of longitudinal grooves stamped on the paper by the roller 0, and y y are the plain parts by which the reticulated ribbon is bordered. In such condition it will be easily understood that the endless reticulated paper after having been brought over by the usual devices and cut lengthwise into'a sheet, to be presented in the usual manner to the tubeforming organs of the cigarette-machine, the said sheet will roll like not-reticulated paper, while the sizer at the required moment applies the glue to that part 3 which is to form the tube. Then the sized part, being applied upon the symmetrical part y, will take without any difliculty, being both plain.

Until now I supposed the reticulated paper The roller 1), made of.

to be wound any length on the roller a, and of a width which would permit, after the grooves were applied, of being cut into several endless strips, each of which is intended for being employed afterward in mechanical cigarette-making. I also supposed, to simplify the operation, the reticulation to be made independently of the subsequent mechanical making of the paper tube which forms the cigar- 1 IO ette-cover. I, however, stateexpresslythat the endless paper may be reticulated after having been cut into strips, the width of which would be equal to the total display of the paper tube to be formed afterward, and this is a conse- I 5 quence thereof that the reticulation may take place simultaneously with the working of the cigarette-machine and in more or less immediate connection with it.

Fig. 5 shows the paper 10, which is stored on 2c the bobbin a,'being reticulated between the rollers b and c, and thence guided by the guideroll d, reaching directly the delivering-rollers r and r,which go before the cutting,sizing,

and tube-forming devices in common cigar- 2 5- et'te-machines; consequently the conveyance of thepaper will be effectuated by intermittent forwarding, and owing to the more rapid Working ofthe delivering or feeding rollersrand rin the same way as if the said rollers were actuating o ordinary paper, either reticulated or not. I

also beg to state that between the guide-rollers d and the delivering-rollers the reticulated paper may receive any mark or impression like the common ones, due to the means usually employed or to those for which I have ob- 35 tained already Letters Patent N o. 276,5l7, May .1, 1883, for stamping any colored impression and for bronzing in any shades. The grooves of the roller 0 may be straight, like those shown in the drawings; but they may be also depressed, sinuous, or crossed, or of any other form, provided plain strips are reserved between each series to allow the sizing and the formation of the paper tube.

'With the grooves any designs, marks,or trade- 5 marks, may be combined,to be repeated on the whole or on part of each length of strips corresponding to the length of a cigarette. Finally, the pressure of the rollers c and b required for stamping the projections of the roller 0 may be supplied and regulated by any suitable means, either by screws 12, Fig. 2, actuating the bearings of the shaft, or by springs or any other flexible appliances.

After having now-described the nature of 55 my invention and the several means to be employed for its use, I claim As a new article of manufacture, cigarettepaper having reticulated central body and plain margins y y at two opposite sides, as 60 specified.

' EGBERT ABADIE.

Witnesses:

ALPHONSE BLETRY, RoBT. M. HOOPER. 

